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3. This is somewhat off-topic, but I have to mention
Ecco32, the best Windows outlining program (and much more). It has been off the market for five years and is not supported, but I still use it constantly because I have never found anything (since DOS years) which is remotely as useful for to-do lists, misc notes, etc. It is utterly configurable (multiple views, optional attributes visible in columns or hidden: text, checkbox, drop-down-list, dates). It is discussed at
http://www.eccorocks.com/ and can be downloaded for free from
ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/support/pub/utilities/EC401/Ecco32/
4.
Winkey from
http://download.com.com/3000-2344-913626.html is free, tiny, and provides great configurable shortcuts if you have a Windows key on your keyboard.
5. PC Magazine has hundreds of tiny utilities, of which I use a dozen or so. They are no longer free, but for about $20 one has access to all of them for a year at
http://www.extremetech.com/category2/0,3971,5099,00.asp
6. I mentioned this in another thread, but by far the fastest JPEG viewer which I have found is
PIE (Picture Information Extractor) from
http://www.picmeta.com/ . I especially like that one can page through dozens of full-screen images in seconds, because the keyboard is always responsive even in the middle of a re-display. I use TotCmd / IrfanView for viewing a few photos, but if I want to browse a whole photo directory, I switch to PIE. (It also offers automatic file renaming based on EXIF dates, times and other fields, also rotation but no tweaking.)
7. For the record, my text editor is Multi-Edit 9 and my keyboard macro program is AimKeys 3. They are both good programs, but no better, I think, than many alternatives.